Technical Aspects of Movie

Rating: 8/10 (16 December 2005)

This isn't really a spoiler, but this movie has a really surprising and interesting plot and I don't want to chance ruining it for anybody who hasn't seen it by giving them any information they wouldn't otherwise have. Anyway, overall this movie was very entertaining and provocative to watch. Scarlett Johansenn is gorgeous in it and it's very fun to watch anyway.
The part that bugs me is the technical liberties they took with the storyline and fundamental plot of the movie. Clones DO NOT have the same fingerprints. A clone is not a copy of a person... it's a person with the exact same DNA. They'll have their own fingerprints and their own mind and conscience. In The Island, clones magically had the same fingerprints and some kind of memory imprint from their original counterpart. This concept is totally ludicrous in the field of genetics and cloning and unfortunately this movie only perpetuates false beliefs of an otherwise very promising field of study.
What was interesting is that the movie addressed other fact-based aspects of cloning which I won't get into here to avoid spoilers. The tragic part is that the movie could have preserved all the exciting and dramatic plot elements without falsifying what cloning actually is at a very basic level.